David Chesterman is a graduate in Architecture and Planning from the University of Sydney. He worked for some years in Britain and the USA where he was involved in urban renewal, new town development and airport design. With McConnell Smith and Johnson, Sydney, he was associate responsible for the design and documentation of the Commonwealth / State Law Courts at Queens Square and a member of the policy committee for the 1971 City of Sydney Strategic Plan.

A founding director of Jackson Teece, he built up the firm's extensive planning and urban design practices. Projects and studies for which he has been responsible cover most facets of development and planning. He has been involved in the assessment of many major urban projects and been a member of various government committees concerned with planning issues.

In 1992 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia for services to town planning.
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